Former LA school official ordered to repay PTA

LOS ANGELES 
A former Los Angeles school administrative assistant who misappropriated public funds from an elementary school and its Parent-Teacher Association has been ordered to pay more than $116,000 in restitution.

Prosecutors say 47-year-old Lisa Ann Castro was ordered Wednesday to pay $93,400 to the Los Angeles Unified School District and $23,000 to Halldale Elementary School in Torrance.

She was responsible for two school accounts and was also treasurer of the PTA with access to its checking account from 2005 to 2009.

Castro pleaded guilty in February to misappropriation of public funds and was sentenced to two years in state prison.

As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dismissed embezzlement and forgery counts.